Soft Molasses Cookies

Name: Soft Molasses Cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup molasses; 1 egg; ¾ cup butter; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 4 cups flour; 1 teaspoon soda; ¼ teaspoon ginger; 1 cup sugar; ¾ cup hot water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settlement Cook Book

By Lizzie Black Kander

Published 1903

About

Ingredients

¾ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Cream butter, add sugar, well beaten egg, molasses and hot water, then the mixed and sifted dry ingredients. Drop from spoon in warm buttered pan; bake quickly.